Five South Yorkshire police officers are on trial for using the police helicopter’s video camera to film a swinger couple having sex in their garden, naturists on a campsite and people sunbathing nude. Matthew Lucas, 42, and Lee Walls, 47, current on duty officers, Malcolm Reeves, 64, a retired pilot, Matthew Loosemore, 45, a former pilot with the force, and Adrian Pogmore, 50, also formerly of South Yorkshire police, are all facing charges. Adrian allegedly filmed his swinger friends having sex on the patio of their suburban house, according to the prosecutor. The “brazen” couple “put on a show” for the officers, as the woman waved at the aircraft at one point during the eight-minute recording and engaged in a number of sex acts and sexual positions. The prosecutor showed the jury the graphic footage from July 2008, and said, “As you will see in a moment, the couple who were filmed on this occasion were very much aware that they were being observed; indeed, they seem to relish it.” The couple, friends of Adrian, already pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office. The prosecutor added, “The reason that this couple are so happy to be recorded engaging in sexual intercourse is that they are friends of Mr Pogmore and shared his sexual interest in the swinging scene. It was clearly, therefore, no coincidence that the helicopter orbits around their garden while they brazenly put on a show. You may hope that the police helicopter is chasing down criminals and keeping the community safe. You may never imagine that in fact it is being used to film a pair of swingers in the throes of sexual passion for the entertainment of the crew.”

There was additional footage of naturists on a campsite, as well as two recordings of people sunbathing naked. Footage shot in August 2007 showed the police helicopter circling a garden where a woman was sunbathing nude on a lawn. “There is self-evidently no legitimate policing purpose connected to orbiting her home and using equipment to film her naked body,” the prosecutor said. “This was a deliberate invasion of their privacy for, at the very least, the inappropriate amusement of the crew, and at worst, for their sexual gratification.” Fuck the police.

Randy Carter is a pussy magnate, and was literally swimming in pussy in his gigantic private pool in his backyard. He is from suburban Dallas Parker County, Texas, and (allegedly) hosted swinger parties at his home, dubbed the “Naughty Neighbors” club, which was listed on several swingers’ sites with entry fees and hours, so “allegedly” is really only legalese at this point, since he is being sued by his Homeowners Association. According to his neighbors, Randy has some pretty randy parties. “Extremely busy, loud, lots of traffic. It was a nightly thing,” said Chase Patterson, who lives next door. His neighbors are going after his guest lists in court, and it is making quite the splash. Randy’s attorneys say the guest list isn’t relevant to the case, but the HOA’s attorney is saying they needs to speak to the guests because they are witnesses to what went on. “They can tell us about the loud music, about the lights, about the traffic. And we want to speak to them,” said attorney Luke Beshara. But there appears to be another reason Luke is going after the list. “We were told one evening that there were several judges and attorneys on it. So I’d be curious to see if that’s the case. We’ve been told everything else under the sun, too, though,” he said. Randy got a little randy about reporter questions about his swinger escapades and his guest list, saying “I’m gonna go get my gun,” and “They want my guest list for everyone who has come on my property for the last 8 years. Would you turn over your guest list?” Why you gotta take it there, Randy?

You might think sexual promiscuity breeds sexually transmitted disease more so than monogamy. You’d be wrong. A new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, finds that people in monogamous relationships are exposed to STDs just as often as those in open or swinger relationships, due in part to infidelity. The survey of 554 people found that monogamous couples are less likely to use condoms and get tested for STDs, even when cheating. Basically, monogamous couples are more reckless than you might have thought. “It turns out that when monogamous people cheat, they don’t seem to be very good about using condoms,” Justin Lehmiller, a psychologist at Ball State University and author of the study said. “People in open relationships seem to take a lot of precautions to reduce their sexual health risks.” One in 4 of the 351 monogamous-relationship participants in Justin’s survey admitted that they cheated on their partners, similar to rates of sexual infidelity reported in other surveys. For people in supposedly monogamous relationships, Jason said, “this risk is compounded by the fact that cheaters are less likely to get tested for (STDs), so when they pick something up, they are probably less likely to find out about it before passing it along.” Jason added, “there’s a potential danger in monogamy in that if your partner puts you at risk by cheating, you’re unlikely to find out until it’s too late.”